The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China - Princeton Legacy Library - Cynthia Joanne Brokaw - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691608792 - July 14, 2014
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The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China - Princeton Legacy Library

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The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users "good" enough to accumulate


300 pages, black & white illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 14, 2014
ISBN13 9780691608792
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 300
Dimensions 234 × 156 × 19 mm   ·   466 g
Language English  

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